Plenty Coups

Plenty Coups (1848-1932) was a Crow chief who sided with the United States during the Indian Wars.

Biography
Plenty Coups was born in 1848 near Billings, Montana to the Crow tribe, and he was elected chief of his tribe by other chiefs at the age of twenty-nine. Plenty Coups decided to side with the United States during the wars with the Sioux and other rival tribes, as the Sioux and Cheyenne were traditional opponents of the Crow; he also had a vision that the Crow would take over Montana when he was a young child. Through cooperation with the USA, he led his people peacefully into the 20th century, defeating the Sioux and ensuring his tribe's survival and modernization.